Aphra Behn: Quotes about life

Aphra Behn was British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer. Explore interesting quotes on life.

Aphra Behn: 30 quotes2 likes

“…that perfect Tranquillity of Life, which is no where to be found, but in retreat, a faithful Friend and a good Library…”

The Lucky Mistake (1689).
Source: The Lucky Chance, Or, the Alderman's Bargain

“A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and the mind; the pictures of the pen shall outlast those of the pencil, and even worlds themselves.”

Aphra Behn book Oroonoko

Source: Oroonoko

“Each moment of the happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.”

The Younger Brother, Act III, sc. ii (published posthumously 1696).